To think lots of people are dumb over smart meters

[InkedGreen]

Fab little devices, we have ours on the kitchen table and is a great reminder to use less or to turn off stuff when we're not in the room. Showers make it go crazy and we've really cut down the shower lengths if not washing our hair

We have twice had engineers; sent out to change our meter, despite us refusing, tell us that they wouldn't have smart meters themselves.

I don't have one, because I don't think many of them work for more than one supplier, and I change mine all the time.

My current energy supplier EON is now bullying me by text and email saying I agreed to have one installed and I need to let them in at an appointment... Did I fuck. It was nowhere on the t&c I signed up to,not flagged in the marketing, and I will not let them in to turn off all the power and put one in (which won't work due to having zero, literally zero, mobile signal due to landscape dip on our end of the street)... Fucking harassing bastards!

I had one but then changed energy supplier - new company can't/won't use the smart meter so I have to send them a meter reading every month!!

We said no thanks. Not necessary. It would not alter the length of our showers or anything else.
I think the meters are more for the benefit of the energy companies

We can’t have one due to where our meters are located

I'm dumb too because a) I know when I'm using my electricity and b) can't get one fitted with our meter.

I'm happy to be dumb.

I've made an active decision not to have a smart meter.

I choose to be dumb.

I hate them. I dint believe they’re safe at all.

I've noticed when shopping around for a good energy deal many suppliers are stating that you have to have a smart meter fitted to get the good deal.

Bulb are fitting one for me on Friday. I've had one email offering, no harassment, and it's a 2nd generation one so changing suppliers wouldn't be an issue.

I'm getting one for 2 reasons; firstly to save having to send meter readings and secondly to show my adult children who still live at home how bloody wasteful they are at times with the electricity.

The one we had didn't work because the stupid electricity company doesn't take jet account that we don't have constant WiFi because we have awful broadband living in a rural area. Our connection drops every few minutes and the bloody smart meter bleeps every time and fails. They couldn't use it to take a reading and instead used the reading from meter they had removed and reinstalled in somebody else's home! That took about 10 months to sort out. So no, we will not be using them. It's just big brother trying to watch us anyway

I hope @InkedGreen IS a main energy supplier, (trying to gauge peoples responses,) because the responses and reactions on here are PRICELESS! 😂

Did you get the reactions you were hoping for OP??? 😆 (Which is basically 95% of posters throwing shade over, and shitting all over smart meters?!)

Yes YABU.

I submit meter readings to SSE.

Every few months somebody comes out to read the meter.
They always try to get me to have a smart meter. They roll out the words 'Government' and 'compulsory' and then I respond - thanks to MN I am armed with info. Not quite the pushover they think!

What is the benefit to me in getting a smart meter? I can see benefits to the companies but not me. Until somebody can answer my question, it's a firm no.

I'm now using the "Blackpool illumninations" line to my children..and the "live in a barn" one.

My dad would switch every light off as we left the room, close all doors, draw curtains completely.
When we finally got central heating, it was allowed from November to February.

No shower or radiators in our first house, just baths (bathwater shared sometimes - yuk). This was the 1970s and 1980s.

Who needs a smart meter when you grew up with a parent who employed a home phone lock?

@SmileCheese - me too!

@HandsOffMyRights

OMG I remember those landline phone locks! My dad put one on when I got them a £115 quarterly bill once coz of spending HOURS on then phone to may mates and boyfriend. (Normal bill was £40-ish.)

£115 in the early 80s was like £450 in today's money! For 3 months phone calls! 😬

Suffice to say, he was not happy!

Bluegirl, that's them

That was some call! My dad also made sure our phone was in the cold hallway too. It discouraged phone usage also.

I used to watch American films where the teenage girl would always have a cool phone in her bedroom and be envious..

We may well be related Barbara!

We grew up with no heating other than the fire in the living room. My parents still don't have central heating as Dad thinks it's unhealthy!

@HandsOffMyRights

I know right! I was on the phone a LOT. I think I spent 80 minutes on the phone this one time (to my boyfriend,) when my parents were out! I only came off the phone when my auntie cycled round from her house (2 miles away) to find out if the phone had been left off the hook, as she had been trying to get through for nearly an hour an a half!! 😬

...and some people are dumb about completely different things.

I fully believe this is an energy company too

I was terrible as a teen in the early eighties at running up massive phone bills too. My father after receiving a quarterly bill of around £150 unplugged the phone we had and hid it. I had to ask to use it and it had to be downstairs, not in their room so they could monitor howling I was on it for 😂

We could more than afford the bill but my parents were adamant that I should learn the value of money as early as possible in life.

YABVVU. That's it.

It won't stop DH boiling a kettle full of water for 1 cup of tea, so I won't bother.

Damn, that's exactly what I wanted it for!

Why do they do that? I've even demonstrated how much unnecessary water he's boiled by pouring it into a measuring jug, and then telling him how much energy, in joules, he had used unnecessarily.

He just took the piss out of me for not having the faintest idea how to convert joules to kWh, the smartarsed bastard.